Contract Engineer

Our office is basically a house in Raju Colony, Balanagar. Specifically, it’s H-No-6-55. If you know the Hyderabad-042 area, you probably know how the streets are around here. We’ve been set up as contract engineers for quite a while. We handle the technical stuff that other people often don't want to mess with. It is just a small group of us working together every day. We don't do much marketing because word of mouth from people we’ve helped usually keeps us busy enough. The desk is almost always covered in papers and old coffee mugs. We aren't trying to be some high-tech startup with a gym; we just do traditional engineering work. Sometimes we stay late when a deadline is coming up fast, but that is just how it goes in this line of work. The neighborhood is mostly families and small businesses, so it feels like a good, grounded place to work from. We take the bus or drive in, and the morning tea stall nearby is where we usually start the day and talk about what needs doing. There’s no corporate ladder here, just a bunch of guys who know how to read a schematic and follow a plan. We try to be helpful and honest about what can actually be done. If a project isn't right for us, we just say so. People seem to appreciate that kind of directness. It’s just a straightforward way to earn a living in Balanagar. We’re just regular people doing technical work from a house.